Post by geezerman on May 13, 2013 4:41:20 GMT -6
???Looks like I put this in the completed section, but I don't feel like changin it. May even be done before anyone sees it anyway. 
I don't know why I was thinkin we didn't have a spot for this on Rustbuckets
But we have started a themed community build, Bonneville, over in Skid's place. I don't always join in these things unless I'm interested in the subject. I have put my woody pro street on hold for this.
Couple of guys are going vintage and classic salt cars. I also wanted to go vintage, as vintage as I can get. However, I am compelled to imagineer stuff and soon found myself going out of the norm........ Again.
The pile of parts I scrounged up to start.
My first move is to respoke the wheels with .015 wire.
I have had these wheels primed and stored in a baggie for several years. Getting to the rear halves, I discovered the spokes are all on one plane and there is no shoulder I can drill to let new wire spokes bypass each other where they cross. So, I'm having to leave the back halves plastic.
Back in the days of the first quarter of the 20th century, my fellow crackpot predecessors came up with all kinds of wierd contraptions in the aviation and automobile fields, so, I dont feel too out of line.
Here is the 'bellhousing' of an old fourbanger getting converted to an adapter.
Oh, yeah, dual engines
Having to lengthen the frame in this first foto, I ran into my first senior moment.
I had reattached the front upside down. It had to be redone, sigh!
I don't know why I was thinkin we didn't have a spot for this on Rustbuckets
But we have started a themed community build, Bonneville, over in Skid's place. I don't always join in these things unless I'm interested in the subject. I have put my woody pro street on hold for this.
Couple of guys are going vintage and classic salt cars. I also wanted to go vintage, as vintage as I can get. However, I am compelled to imagineer stuff and soon found myself going out of the norm........ Again.
The pile of parts I scrounged up to start.
My first move is to respoke the wheels with .015 wire.
I have had these wheels primed and stored in a baggie for several years. Getting to the rear halves, I discovered the spokes are all on one plane and there is no shoulder I can drill to let new wire spokes bypass each other where they cross. So, I'm having to leave the back halves plastic.
Back in the days of the first quarter of the 20th century, my fellow crackpot predecessors came up with all kinds of wierd contraptions in the aviation and automobile fields, so, I dont feel too out of line.
Here is the 'bellhousing' of an old fourbanger getting converted to an adapter.
Oh, yeah, dual engines
Having to lengthen the frame in this first foto, I ran into my first senior moment.
I had reattached the front upside down. It had to be redone, sigh!
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